After a young boy, Christopher Ryan, is caught driving a runaway van, Detective Elliot Stabler and Detective Benson take the seven year-old into questioning. When Christopher claims his foster parents, Gwen and Noah Sibert, bribe him in exchange for abusive medical testing, the detectives investigate his allegations. As Detective Benson continues to study the boya 's accusations, she is led back to a former unsolved rape case involving Kaitlyn Murphy. After reviewing both cases, Benson uncovers a common factor, and with help from new A.D.A Kim Greylek she just might be able to solve the cases.

Teenage boy Eric Byers admits himself into the squad room, and warns the team about an unnatural desire towards his younger stepbrother, Cory Kelly. Detective Elliot Stabler and Olivia Bensona 's suspicions arise, and Eric admits to also looking at a website to try to curb his pedophilic urge. With no crime committed, the detectives decide to investigate this a self-helpa website for pedophiles leading them to ita 's creator, Jake Berlin. Erica 's rage induced stepfather is also questioned, and shortly after Eric is found missing. The detectives must race to place the clues together to find and stop Eric before any crime is committed.

Stabler is shocked when his daughter, Kathleen, becomes the suspect in an investigation to catch a trespasser. He seeks his estranged mother's help in dealing with his daughter's case.

The investigation of a famous dead astronaut found in Battery Park has hit a dead end, causing Stabler to ask for assistance from his old mentor, Dick Finley, a former colleague of the victim and an astronaut himself.

A baby with AIDS has Benson and Stabler asking for assistance from Warner as they investigate the case. They are pointed in the direction of a homeopathic doctor who has an questionable ethical past and who had prescribed the baby ineffective vitamins.

Stabler and Munch uncover a chastity club and a group of girls with a pregnancy pact at a high school where they came to investigate the death of a student.

Stabler gets help from hip hop artist Gots Money, a group insider, when they try to break up an animal-smuggling ring. Benson poses as a prostitute for added assistance, which leads to complications in Stabler’s marriage.

Benson finds himself going as far as to hiding inside a stairway to protect a woman who is a victim of spousal abuse. While hiding, Benson uncovers another crime from the past.

Benson and Greylek try to keep a case concerning a pregnant marine who is carrying a rapists child, in SVU when the Navy wants to take it over. This brings flashbacks to Benson and her sexual assault, so she asks for help from Fin on the case.

After being found wandering around Riverside Park, beaten and raped, Kelly Sun is taken in by Benson, but she has no memory of what happened. Benson’s investigation finds that Kelly was on her way to Korea, but never got on the plane; instead, she was seen leaving with a mystery man who becomes the case’s number one suspect. Stabler and Benson search for evidence against the mystery man, Eric Lutz, and Benson is overcome with memories of her own attack.

When a girl who vanished four years ago reappears, she claims to have been imprisoned and sexually abused. Benson and Stabler look into the case and find themselves having to sort through what was fact and what the girl made up.

When a teenager’s body is uncovered in the Hudson River, the detectives search for the victim’s identity which leads Benson to go undercover as a madam.

The mother of a kidnapped young girl points the detectives towards her father, an ex-con, but it is soon discovered that the grandfather is a master thief and has many enemies. However, because of Alzheimer’s, the grandfather can’t remember much of his past.

The detectives have very little to work with after a man is found badly-beaten in a strip club’s parking lot. Their questioning begins with the dancers until the victim’s ex-wife and 13-year old transgender son become suspects.

When a pediatrician convicted of abusing patients is found dead, Stabler and Benson investigate and soon find ADA Cabot has a reason for becoming involved in the case.

The scene of a single murder soon turns into a scene of three deaths, sending Benson and Stabler to work with a strip club owner in order to track down the killer before more bodies pile up.

A young rape victim who's throat has been slashed uses a drawing to of her alleged attacker, which resembles the devil. The detectives question a local priest whose neighbors claim is a satanic worshiper.

Fina ans Stabler connect the death of a rising artist with an unsolved murder, and then find a link to another serial killer in which another detective had been hunting down and who has become territorial over his cases lately.

A grandmother reports that her 2 year old granddaughter has disappeared, but the Amber Alert fails to yield progress. The detectives then move their attention over to her young irresponsible mother as their prime suspect.

A teenage girl who sent text messages containing nude pictures of herself is found beaten up. She next faces a harsh sentence from a judge after being arrested for producing and distributing child pornography.

A judge asks an odd request for a plaintiff who is seeking a restraining order: he asks detectives to interview a convicted serial killer concerning his son’s kidnapping, which took place 30 years ago.

A former artist is questioned by the detectives when a tourist's body is found murdered in Central Park. Finn and Munch try to keep a watch on him, but lose him and seek the help of Munch's ex-wife.